Eggs Improve Your Cholesterol
Easy Health Options® Staff | Apr 26, 2012 | Comments 7 |
For years, doctors have been telling their patients to give up eggs because eggs contain cholesterol. They believed that eating this source of cholesterol would be dangerous for heart health.
The truth of that advice has now been cracked like an eggshell. When researchers at the University of Connecticut fed people three eggs a day for three months (and restricted their sugar and carbohydrate consumption), they found that their blood cholesterol improved. Their HDL measures showed significantly greater increases in the number and size of HDL particles. HDL (good cholesterol) scavenges for fat throughout the bloodstream and returns it to the liver, making it less likely that fatty deposits will build up in the blood vessels and lead to atherosclerosis.
The study was presented at Experimental Biology (EB) 2012 in San Diego.
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I Well what is it,either we can eat eggs or not ,so it’s ok I wish everybody would make your minds up .I have not brough eggs for a long time I have stopped eaten eggs in my diet,I do miss them. By the way why are they dairy product how is that possible.
I have been eating eggs for quite some time and only fry them in coconut oil sunnyside up or by poaching in water. I never eat eggs scrambled as I have been informed that your cholesterol levels can actually go up if you expose the egg to air. Vegetable oils contain transfats which are making our population obese that why I always cook with coconut oil ,check out articles on the web about the many benefits of coconut oil.My last check on cholesterol was very good and I love eating three eggs for breaky.
I eat so many eggs, i’m starting to lay them!!
Well!!!, Well!!!
It looks like another food fallacy bites the dust.
Do we have a science population that does not understand that humans are OMNIVORES and that that means we eat everything?
It sure looks that way.
How many of our digestive problems are actually caused by false information promulgated by science? It seems that much of this is only to promote a specific product. Much of the hype on this new product is based on fear.
And of course, we must consider that the Food and Drug Administration will not certify any natural product as a treatment or a cure for any illness.They only certify artificial products that can be patented by the pharmaceutical companies. These artificial “cures” always seem to have bad side effects which require more medication.
When separated from the USAF in 1964 I spent months chasing request cards for health insurance. What was memorable about this is that many of these requests came from elderly farmers and their wives. It seemed that they were among the healthiest people that I met, and to a person they had no medical histories. Quite a while ago, I stopped taking medication for minor symptoms. I have not had a major symptom since.
Another good way to eat eggs is hard boiled. I understand the fats are
transformed to be much better for us.
Eat only eggs from free-ranging birds not the junk from factory farms; you’ll taste and
see the difference.
Also, while we are talking about properly raised food, drink only raw milk from grass
fed animals, if your’re not lactose sensitive. Even this sensitivity can be reduced.
The Amish have it right and I’m not Amish.
Eggs have always been good. The source of life for many animals cannot be bad.
Bad science was used to brand eggs and saturated fats as bad while the good science was suppresed, purely for the benefit of the political and finacial conveniece of certain interest groups in the United States of America. The good science has been in the research achieves all the time. The information has been made public because of the global presence of the internet. Further microbiology using very sophiscated equipment has revealed many new details on the activities of the cell in the body of animals including humans. Mad cow disease is basically due to the unsaturated vegetable oils fed to the cattle to make them fat quickly. Also the diseases caused by unsaturated vegetable oils the source of LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) are now affecting the families of the perpetrators of the hoax.
It is now known that the good fats are saturated fats and the bad fats are unsaturated vegetable fats which contain high levels of unsaturated trans fatty acids and poly unsaturated fatty acids. Poly unsaturated fatty acids get converted into prostaglandins in the body; these prostaglandins are now identified as being associated with almost all the known life style diseases.
Organic eggs, milk, butter and chesse got accused, because it is illogical to blame cholesterol and saturated fat without balming the fat and cholesterol that come from animals.
It does not make sense to accuse food items that are the source of life as bad. Truth cannot be covered for ever.
@Clive That whole exposing the egg to air increases the amount of cholesterol blah blah blah is complete nonsense. And once the contents of the egg leaves the shell, it’s already exposed to air. Frying exposes the egg to air just as much as scrambling one does. That’s a rather odd theory you shared. Nobody I shared it with, had heard of it before either. Ideally, the healthiest way to prepare an egg is to poach or boil it. No oil, fat, butter etc
is involved. I love a good omlette now and again.